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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

DIY Painting Glass

With all the glass paintings I did last week,Jeanette said: you didn't paint it all, but the eye/brain fill in the missing bits...Damn! I'm going to have to buyDavid Dewey's book...sounds like he thinks the way I like to see...

So I thought I'd do a little review on painting glass. I painted this one back in David's class at Parsons in '96. A very old, much looked at copy of one of David's class demos ofpainting reflective surfaces...... and the notes from class on the "closure effect".

"Break it up so the eye fills it in automatically. Simplify! Color effects create the form on the patterns. You want to relate the reflective patterns to the overall 2D pattern! Use chromatic neutrals (grays made from mixing complimentary colors, NEVER black or gray paint)." A page from David's watercolor book, using a Wayne Thiebaud painting that demonstrates using compliments on glass... Thiebaud paints quite a bit of glass and I'm always on the lookout for my reference files...

Another Thiebaud... OK! So I do a little pencil thumbnail of my subject. Remember the lesson on thumbnails class? Early stage of the painting is mostly pale washes of warm and cool color...#171B Hydrangea in a water glass,sold, original watercolor,9" x 11"Voila! The finish. Oh I mustn't forget to show you the subject matter...ahem

Hi Carol,Since my Mother in Law hasPainted for many years, I wasThinking about getting herDavid Deweys Book. SheStill gives classes and goes toArt school. This summer sheWent to one for a week up inRhinlander, WI. Bless her heart,She is 90 years old!! Any way Is the book titled :The Watercolor Book: MaterialsAnd Techniques Copyright 2000?You seem to like it and she would too, I'm sure.Thanks,Susan

The color and lettering of the Thiebaud illustration for "The New Yorker" magazine's cover of September 2007 bear a striking resemblance to the packaging of the "Original Neapolitan Wafers," created by the Viennese Manner company in 1898, 110 years ago.

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Hi I'm Carol Gillott,
My Mom taught me watercolors at 5. I'm still at it, now tripping over cobblestones, living in a 6th-floor garret on l'Ile Saint-Louis, Paris. Read Parisbreakfast with a hot chocolate and croissant.
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